Evaluation of Students’ Attitude Towards ICT for Learning Purpose: Case Study of EMU IT Students

ICT use and usefulness is largely adopted now as a trend globally and in institutions, especially for administrative, managerial and learning purposes. The main aim of this research work is to evaluate the attitude of EMU IT students towards ICT for learning purposes. This research work also focuses on deriving the significant differences and finding out the level of positivity or negativity of students’ attitudes towards the ICT tools for learning purposes. The significant differences of this investigation were based on the students’ age, class level and gender to determine the differences in attitudinal display of students regarding ICT adoption. Data for this research was gathered from 300 participants from IT department of EMU, through the use of questionnaire and interview questions. Responses of the respondents were analyzed adopting the SPSS instrument in other to derive the t-test, frequency, percentage, and ANOVA values. The findings of this research showed that majority of EMU IT students possessed generally high attitudinal acceptability level towards ICT for learning purposes. Results also showed that students are highly and positively motivated and also have high receptive attitude towards the usage of ICT and its importance to their entire and general academic purposes. The study further show that the significant difference based on age, gender and class of students. This obtained results showed that no major significant difference between male and female display of attitudes towards ICT for learning purpose, because it was clearly found that male and female EMU IT students had different views on few cases relating to ICT importance to learning, but majority of the total responses obtained from both male and female EMU IT students proved that there is no significance difference on attitude towards ICT in learning. Keywords: Instructional Technology, Information Communication Technology, Attitude.